But you've got to be fearless, and sometimes even ruthless, in pursuit of your goal. You also have to make many sacrifices, and the cost to yourself and your loved ones can be incredibly high. Asks what's more important, the people who sell animals for necessities or the animals?
Dian wants government officials to find a better way to provide for their people. Dian Fossey is a strong role model for women in the sciences. Almost by sheer force of will she saved a species of mountain gorilla from certain extinction, although at great cost to herself.
She fearlessly confronted and even fought back against poachers and others who used violence and intimidation to try and stop her. She sometimes took things too far, but her refusal to let anything stand in her way led to ultimate success. A bloody gorilla's body with its head and hands cut off. A gorilla shot and stabbed with spears throws a man. Machetes rise and fall as they hack at an off-camera gorilla. A gorilla's hands being cut off with brief glimpses of blood and bloody clothing.
Lifeless gorilla bodies strewn across a field. A baby deer in a trap in distress is shot twice with a handgun to put it out of its misery.
A child is tied up and frightened and intimidated into giving information. A man is intimidated by being almost hung. Mention of a civil war and upheaval, guns seen and heard off screen in a burning village.
A man is hit with a rifle butt. A machete rising in silhouette then cuts to a bloody hand with blood pooled underneath. Lots of scariness from people and animals in peril and animals in distress, including a baby gorilla taken from its mother. A severed gorilla's hand briefly glimpsed wrapped in a bloodstained cloth.
Important people and animals die. Several kisses and some caressing, once in a bathtub with body parts covered in bubbles, the rest with clothes or pajamas on.
A woman walks in on two people in bed, seemingly nude under the covers but no body parts shown. A couple talk about whether it matters that he's married to someone else. Dian smokes. Later she has a persistent cough that isn't talked about or explained. Other characters or people in the background occasionally smoke. Adults occasionally drink scotch, beer, and an unidentified brown liquor. Parents need to know that Gorillas in the Mist is a movie based on the life and work of Dian Fossey, who saved mountain gorillas from extinction in the '70s and '80s.
Sensitive animal lovers of all ages should know that there's lots of scariness and tension from animals and people in peril: a baby gorilla separated from its mother; the body of a gorilla with its head and hands cut off; a baby deer in pain and distress after falling in a pit trap; a brief glimpse of a severed gorilla hand; and poachers hunting, spearing, and hacking at gorillas.
Blood and bloodstained clothes are shown briefly, including a large pool under a bloody hand, but no other gore. Strong language includes "s--t," "goddamn," "ass," and one "f--king.
Some say she went too far. Did you know Edit. Trivia As later stated by one of the costumers, the baby gorillas who interacted with humans were not gorillas, but chimpanzees who were made up in black-face and given peaked fur hats to more closely resemble gorillas. This is because the use of actual baby gorillas would have put the filmmakers in serious danger from the adult gorillas.
Goofs Dian did not try to convince Leakey to send her to Africa, nor did she volunteer to remove her appendix, quite the opposite: In , Leakey contacted Fossey and urged her to study gorillas in the wild as an experiment.
At first Fossey was reluctant citing her lack of experience, but eventually agreed upon further coercion. To test her enthusiasm Leakey asked Fossey to have her appendix removed in the pretense of health measures which she then did. Quotes Dian Fossey : Shit, shit User reviews 70 Review. Top review. Inspiring, moving, provoking and educational. Based on Dian Fossey's own autobiography, this true life story is inspiring and has helped these amazing animals in many ways by waking us up to their plight.
Originally Dian herself was helping to make the film, until she was murdered and the production team had to go back and start it all over again several years later in I am aware she did complete a degree when she returned to the USA in and wrote her book, which was published in , and then revised in She may have done things that weren't ethical according to some, though her plight to save the gorilla came first.
This movie does give a fairly accurate but slightly toned down version of the events, which took place, though there were a few changes in details. It would be impossible to fit 13 years of events into just over one and a half hours of footage.
So I think Hollywood did a good job. The main alterations, leaving out some of the details of horrific animal abuse that would have otherwise pushed the rating up to an R16 and probably left any animal lover in tears. The details they left out as well may have made the film a little to shocking for the chief censors. The special effects makeup, I believe done by Rick Baker, and real gorilla footage is seamless, making it hard to tell which parts were real gorillas and which are very well created costumes.
All up I think this film gives us just enough drama, action and thrills to make it a hit. More Info. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie.
How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. This film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's autobiography. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary of the poachers who prey on them.
Fearing that the gorillas will go extinct if humans continue to hunt them, she organizes a defense league to protect the animals; in doing so, though, she puts herself in a perilous situation. Michael Apted. Terence A. Clegg , Arne Glimcher.
Anna Hamilton Phelan. Oct 31, Sigourney Weaver Dian Fossey. Bryan Brown Bob Campbell. Julie Harris Roz Carr. John Omirah Miluwi Sembagare. Iain Cuthbertson Dr. Louis Leakey. Constantin Alexandrov Van Veeten. Waigwa Wachira Mukara. Iain Glen Brendan. Michael Apted Director. Anna Hamilton Phelan Screenwriter. Clegg Producer.
Arne Glimcher Producer. Peter Guber Executive Producer. Jon Peters Executive Producer. Bryan Brown as Bob Campbell. Julie Harris as Roz Carr. John Omirah Miluwi as Sembagare. Iain Cuthbertson as Dr. Louis Leakey. Constantin Alexandrov as Van Vecten.
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